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Grow NIH-3T3 cells in 15cm pertri-plates and collected cells from 5 plates and
froze them as a pellet at -80C
Thawed the pellet on ice and resuspended them in 500ul of lysis buffer (20mM
HEPES(pH7.2), 150mM NaCl, 2mM EDTA, 1mM DTT, 1xPiC and 1xPMSF).
Used a small volume dounce homogenizer to lyse the cells on ice, 40x up/down
strokes.
The lysate was then spun at 100,000xg for 1hr @4C in a SW55.1 rotor.
The cleared lysate was collected and the protein concentration was measured by
Bradford’s Assay
(Note: usually I get about 10 to 15mg/ml. Since I lyse in 0.5mls and after the
centrifugation I only collect about 400ul, I do 2 superdex-200 runs with
about to 2-4mgs of load per run. I have run up to 10mgs of lysate on a
superdex-200 column.)
The concentration of the lysate was calculated to be around 13.8mg/ml and since
I had little more than 400ul of cleared lysate I had a total of about 5.5mg of
lysate.
Loaded about 200ul of lysate on the superdex-200 column and collected 1ml
fractions
I pooled the two 50ul resuspended TCA pellets and then ran 25ul of the pooled
reactions on two 6% and two 15% SDS-PAGE.